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TUAW Tip: Put your hard disk in your Dock

This is the inaugural post for a new daily segment that we will be doing here at TUAW. The cleverly named 'TUAW Tips' will feature a tip that will help you use your Mac more effectively everyday. This tips will run the gamut from beginner to expert, so you may not be wowed by the tip every day but keep in mind that TUAW has a varied audience and someone out there is bound to learn something.

Today's tip is straightforward, and one of the first things I do when I get a new Mac. If you click on your Hard Disk icon (located on the top right of your screen), drag it down to the Dock (between the black line on the Dock and the trash) you will notice that your Hard Disk is now sittin' pretty in the Dock. Why would you want to do this? As you can see in the picture to the right, when you click and hold down on the copy of your hard disk in the Dock a menu pops up that lets you navigate your hard disk's contents right from the Dock, almost like the Apple menu of days of yore.

You don't have to stop there, if you want more direct access to your Applications folder, for example, you can drag that into the Dock as well. When you click and hold on the Applications folder in the Dock a similar menu pops up, but it only lists the contents of the Applications folder (or any other folder you wish to have down there, including the Desktop folder).
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